The winners were announced at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Forum Theater on April 26, 2005. (The winners are highlighted. The other nominees are also listed.)

MUSIC/SOUND/TEXT WINNER and nominees

• NANOS OPERETTA – Serei/Spirits of Nature, Harupin-Ha
• Sheila McCarthy – Ame to Ame, Inkboat
• Mikel Rouse and Joe Goode – Grace, Joe Goode Performance Group
• Omar Sosa – Resilience and Passages, Dimensions Dance Theater

VISUAL DESIGN WINNER and nominees

• LESLIE SEITERS – Such Tiny Danger, Leslie Seiters and Rachel Shaw
• Marc Ates – Ame to Ame, Inkboat
• Wayne Campbell – Ghost Architecture, Zaccho Dance Theater
• David Fredrickson – Grim Arithmetic of Water, Flyaway Productions

RECONSTRUCTION/REVIVAL/RESTAGING WINNER and nominees

• WENDY ELLIS SOMES – Symphonic Variations, Sir Frederick Ashton, San Francisco Ballet
• Carla Maxwell and Gary Masters – The Unsung, José Limon, Limon Dance Company
• Lynn Wallis – Monotones I and II, Sir Frederick Ashton, San Francisco Ballet

COMPANY PERFORMANCE WINNER and nominees

• YAELISA AND CAMINOS FLAMENCOS – Mujeres, Yaelisa and Company
• Joe Goode Performance Group – Grace, Joe Goode Performance Group
• San Francisco Ballet – Four Temperaments, San Francisco Ballet
• Gamelan Sekar Jaya – Tari Nelayan and Joged Bumbung, Gamelan Sekar Jaya
• Scott Wells and Dancers – @848, Scott Wells & Dancers

ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE WINNER and nominees

• SHINICHI MOMO KOGA and YUKO KASEKI – Ame to Ame, Inkboat
• Jesselito Bie and Scott Wells – Your Move, Scott Wells and Dancers
• Gabriel Forestieri and Christine Cali – Duet in 3 Parts: Fun, Struggle, May-be Beauty, Scott Wells and Dancers
• Limon Dance Company – The Unsung, Limon Dance Company
• Megan Schirle and David McCauley – Dance in a Wing Chair, AXIS Dance Company

INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE WINNERS and nominees

• GINA DAWSON – California Stories: A time…A place, Rhodessa Jones: The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women
• GONZALO GARCIA – Apollo, George Balanchine
• Leigh Evans – When Day Became Night, Leigh Evans
• Suhaila Salimpour – Sheherezade, Suhaila Salimpour
• Sam Weber – Bay Area Tap Festival, Sam Weber

CHOREOGRAPHY WINNERS and nominees

• N’DEYE N’DIAYA GUEYE – Kaolack and Thie Bou Dienne, Thiosanne Africa Senegalese Dance Company
• LESLIE SEITERS and RACHEL SHAW – Such Tiny Danger, Leslie Seiters and Rachel Shaw
• SCOTT WELLS – @848, Scott Wells & Dancers
• Shinichi MOMO Koga, Yuko Kaseki and Marc Ates – Ame to Ame, Inkboat
• Yuri Possokhov – Study in Motion, San Francisco Ballet
• Reginald Ray-Savage – Freedom in Madness, Savage Jazz Dance Company
• Heidi Schweiker – Of Checkered Breezes, Heidi Schweiker

SUSTAINED ACHIEVEMENT WINNERS

• Svetlana Afanasieva
• Mary Ann Kinkead
• Terry Sendgraff
• Koichi and Hiroko Tamano

SPECIAL AWARD WINNER

• Luna Kids Dance

VOICEOFDANCE.COM AWARD WINNER

CRITIC OF MERIT AWARD

• Anna Kisselgoff

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SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS

CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD

• SPARK on KQED, A co-production of Public Television and Bay Area Video Coalition

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

• Nancy Karp, Artistic Director, Nancy Karp + Dancers